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en-gbhttp://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rssSat, 21 Jul 2013 11:25:00 GMTBook Releasehttp://www.charcoaldesign.co.uk/news/book
Sat, 21 Jul 2013 11:25:00 GMT
<p>iOS Core Animation: Advanced Techniques is now available for preorder from InformIT.</p>
http://www.charcoaldesign.co.uk/news/bookRainbow Blocks on Mac App Storehttp://www.charcoaldesign.co.uk/news/rainbowblocks-mac
Thu, 06 Jan 2011 15:31:14 GMT
<p>Our popular iPhone puzzle game Rainbow Blocks is now on the Mac App Store.</p>
http://www.charcoaldesign.co.uk/news/rainbowblocks-macRainbow Blocks Releasedhttp://www.charcoaldesign.co.uk/news/rainbowblocks
Tue, 16 Feb 2010 23:19:10 GMT
<p>Rainbow Blocks, our first iPhone game, now available to buy from the App Store.</p>
http://www.charcoaldesign.co.uk/news/rainbowblocksPandora's Pests Releasedhttp://www.charcoaldesign.co.uk/news/pandora
Tue, 30 Dec 2008 08:55:12 GMT
<p>Koingo Software has released
<a href="pandora"
>Pandora's Pests</a>
, a game developed in collaboration with Charcoal Design.</p>
http://www.charcoaldesign.co.uk/news/pandoraRBGL 1.6 and RBGL Sprites 1.2 Releasedhttp://www.charcoaldesign.co.uk/news/rbglsprites1-2
Sat, 08 Nov 2008 14:26:11 GMT
<p>We've released major updates to RBGL and RBGLSprites, including better performance and some exciting new features...</p>
http://www.charcoaldesign.co.uk/news/rbglsprites1-2RBGL Sprites v1.1 Releasedhttp://www.charcoaldesign.co.uk/news/rbglsprites1-1
Fri, 29 Aug 2008 03:07:11 GMT
<p>We've just released RBGL Sprites 1.1, a major update to our
open source 2D game engine for REALbasic.</p>
http://www.charcoaldesign.co.uk/news/rbglsprites1-1RBGL Sprites v1.0 Releasedhttp://www.charcoaldesign.co.uk/news/rbglsprites
Sat, 11 Jul 2008 17:49:23 GMT
<p>We've just released RBGL Sprites 1.0, a replacement
for the now-deprecated REALbasic SpriteSurface control, used for making
2D games in REALbasic.</p>
http://www.charcoaldesign.co.uk/news/rbglspritesRBGL v1.1 Releasedhttp://www.charcoaldesign.co.uk/news/rbgl
Mon, 16 Jun 2008 20:12:11 GMT
<p>We've just released version 1.1 of RBGL, our open source graphics
library for REALbasic that leverages the OpenGL library on Mac OS and
Windows for hardware accelerated graphics.</p>
http://www.charcoaldesign.co.uk/news/rbglREALunithttp://www.charcoaldesign.co.uk/news/realunit
Sun, 20 Apr 2008 16:20:46 GMT
<p>We've added REALunit, a new open source unit testing framework for REALbasic to our open source software page.</p>
http://www.charcoaldesign.co.uk/news/realunitMagiCal 1.1 Releasedhttp://www.charcoaldesign.co.uk/news/magical1-1
Wed, 15 Aug 2007 02:21:14 GMT
<p>We've just released a major update to our popular MagiCal menu
bar clock and calendar. Almost every feature has been enhanced
and polished - even the icon!</p>
http://www.charcoaldesign.co.uk/news/magical1-1Parsing and Tokenizing Librarieshttp://www.charcoaldesign.co.uk/news/parser
Sun, 29 Jul 2007 19:26:13 GMT
<p>We've added new open source libraries to our REALbasic source page,
including classes for tokenizing and parsing complex formatted strings
such as programming languages and structured data.</p>
http://www.charcoaldesign.co.uk/news/parserNew Bug Tracking Systemhttp://www.charcoaldesign.co.uk/news/bugtracker
Mon, 23 Mar 2007 01:30:07 GMT
<p>We've overhauled our bug reporting and feature request systems with a
brand new interactive bug tracking database.</p>
http://www.charcoaldesign.co.uk/news/bugtrackerSubscriber 1.1 Releasedhttp://www.charcoaldesign.co.uk/news/subscriber1-1
Mon, 19 Mar 2007 00:11:01 GMT
<p>Subscriber 1.1 is now out of beta, and comes loaded with a few new
goodies including full support for Intel macintoshes, and a shiny new icon!</p>
http://www.charcoaldesign.co.uk/news/subscriber1-1PicTiles on MacZothttp://www.charcoaldesign.co.uk/news/maczot
Fri, 16 Mar 2007 18:25:39 GMT
<p>Our Popular puzzle game
<strong>PicTiles</strong>
will be appearing
on
<a href="http://www.maczot.com/"
>macZOT</a>
this weekend, at the
special discount price of $9.99!</p>
http://www.charcoaldesign.co.uk/news/maczotReview on Apple Mattershttp://www.charcoaldesign.co.uk/news/applematters
Fri, 28 Feb 2007 21:55:39 GMT
<p>Apple Matters has posted a review of our freeware utilities
MagiCal and Shades, along with a mini-bio of Charcoal Design's founder
and chief software engineer Nick Lockwood.</p>
http://www.charcoaldesign.co.uk/news/applemattersPicTiles 1.1 Releasedhttp://www.charcoaldesign.co.uk/news/pictiles1-1
Thu, 02 Feb 2007 00:35:31 GMT
<p>We've just released a major update to our popular PicTiles puzzle game,
which includes Intel processor support, as well as many other
enhancements.</p>
http://www.charcoaldesign.co.uk/news/pictiles1-1MagiCal 1.0 Releasedhttp://www.charcoaldesign.co.uk/news/magical
Sat, 06 Jan 2007 18:31:14 GMT
<p>We've just released MagiCal, a
<strong>FREE</strong>
menu-based clock
and calendar program for Mac OS X. MagiCal provides a range of time and date
display options, and can operate in conjunction with, or as a replacement
for, the system menu clock.</p>
http://www.charcoaldesign.co.uk/news/magicalShades 1.1 Releasedhttp://www.charcoaldesign.co.uk/news/shades1-1
Sat, 18 Dec 2006 01:29:47 GMT
<p>We've just released a major update to our popular Shades application,
which includes many new features requested by our users.</p>
http://www.charcoaldesign.co.uk/news/shades1-1Shades 1.0 Releasedhttp://www.charcoaldesign.co.uk/news/shades
Sat, 24 Nov 2006 06:45:47 GMT
<p>We've released a new software product called Shades. Shades is a
<strong>FREE</strong>
utility for adjusting monitor brightness on your
Macintosh. It can be used as a compliment to the built-in brightness
controls of many Macintosh machines, offering a greater dynamic range
and finer control.</p>
http://www.charcoaldesign.co.uk/news/shadesOpen Sourcehttp://www.charcoaldesign.co.uk/news/source
Wed, 22 Nov 2006 18:15:29 GMT
<p>We've added a new open source page to the software section of our site.
We believe that open source software is a great way to encourage innovation
and progress within the developer community, and for this reason we have
decided to provide the source code for our in-house tools and experiments...</p>
http://www.charcoaldesign.co.uk/news/sourcePink for Octoberhttp://www.charcoaldesign.co.uk/news/pink
Fri, 13 Oct 2006 12:11:06 GMT
<p>
<a href="http://pinkforoctober.org"
>Pinkforoctober.org</a>
has been set up
in order to bring attention to Breast Cancer Awareness Month, get people
talking about breast cancer, and raise money for research. Like many
others, Charcoal Design will be adopting a pink hue for the duration of
the month of October...</p>
http://www.charcoaldesign.co.uk/news/pinkWeb Site Relaunchedhttp://www.charcoaldesign.co.uk/news/relaunch
Fri, 13 Oct 2006 02:22:21 GMT
<p>We hope you all like the new-look site. After languishing in development
hell for several years, and after several redesigns which never saw the light
of day, Charcoal Design is now officially open for business. The new site
features a number of enhancements, which we will be adding to over the next
few weeks...</p>
http://www.charcoaldesign.co.uk/news/relaunchPipette 1.0 Releasedhttp://www.charcoaldesign.co.uk/news/pipette
Sat, 07 Oct 2006 22:00:11 GMT
<p>We're proud to announce the release of a new product called Pipette.
Pipette is a
<strong>FREE</strong>
utility for web developers
and digitial artists that allows you to take colour readings from anywhere
on the screen, and return the colour value in the right format for pasting
into Photoshop or any web page. Download it now...</p>
http://www.charcoaldesign.co.uk/news/pipette